It’s a lot, and, unsurprisingly, it includes a lot of taking advantage of taxpayer money because government is not responsible
NBC 5 Investigates finds hidden details on cost of migrant crisis in Chicago
They arrived by the bus load. And later by air. More than 52,000 newly arriving migrants – mostly from the South American countries like Venezuela or Colombia – have come to Chicago over the past two years. (snip)
There were questions and criticisms over the cost and lack of transparency from City Hall over how hundreds of million of dollars were spent.
To date, the City of Chicago has spent more than $612 million providing emergency shelter and other services.
NBC 5 Investigates found the bulk of that money – nearly $500 million – has gone to two companies:
Kansas-based Favorite Healthcare Staffing, which staffed the shelters and Kentucky-based Equitable Social Solutions, which together with another company, Reloshare, helped identify property owners and turned once-vacant warehouses in Chicago into migrant hotels.
So, not even to Illinois companies. Imagine what the city could have done with that money to help the homeless and those having trouble? To implement law and order in more than just the rich and toney neighborhoods?
NBC 5 Investigates was first to report how Favorite Healthcare Staffing routinely billed the city for 84 hours per week – per staffer, including overtime – rates that city alders called “exorbitant” even after the contract was re-negotiated to lower the hourly costs.
When it came to the buildings-turned-hotels with Equitable Social Solutions, some building owners were guaranteed $150,000 a month if hundreds of migrants remained in their building.
But that is information the city kept secret – hidden from public view until NBC 5 Investigates found it in an obscure lawsuit.
Funny how Democrats do not like to tell the peasants what’s going on.
Migrant crisis spurred nearly 3 million overtime hours for two NYC agencies— costing taxpayers $139M
New York City’s biggest overtime hogs for a second straight year are mostly rank-and-file workers responsible for tackling the Big Apple’s $6 billion-plus migrant crisis, The Post has learned.
Fifty-one of the 100 city employees who racked up the most OT during the fiscal year ending June 30 work at the Departments of Social Services and Homeless Services, and their duties include assisting migrants, an examination of city payroll records shows.
Leading the way was Kashwayne Burnett, a DSS bookkeeper who worked 3,303 hours of overtime in the agency’s Manhattan office. That comes to roughly 14 hours a day, seven days a week. The 10-year veteran’s $164,760 in overtime pay more than tripled his $60,445 base salary.
Does anyone believe that any of these people are really working that many hours? Is there anyone in the Sanctuary City New York government who audits this?
Meawnhile
Deep Dive: Undocumented Chinese migrants in the US fear Donald Trump’s deportation threats
How much does it cost to travel from China to the U.S.? These aren’t exactly low income folks walking from Central America. They all need to go.
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Almost every region of the country, including the Windy City, voted more Republican in 2024 than in 2020. There are obviously many reasons for that, but when I saw heavily Democratic cities give more of their votes to President Trump this time around, I had to mentally chuckle that Governor Greg Abbott (R-TX) hit on the winning move, sending the illegals to those Democratic cities.
The ‘official’ number of homeless is 771,000, while the soon-to-be retiree from Delaware released over 3.3 million border crossers into the United States. You do the math!
Obviously some of the homeless are also people who cannot be helped, and would never voluntarily go into shelters: they are junkies or absolute whackos, which would make them prime Democratic voters if they actually voted. But the Dems current cause du jour is affordable housing, and throwing over 3.3 million illegals into the mix, all demanding shelter, increases the demand for housing, vis a vis the supply of housing at the lower end of the market, and that drives up prices.
We limit how many immigrants can enter the country legally because you can only build new homes in a year. New immigrants put a strain on water and energy resources. Demands on food and clothing can also drive up the cost of living.
On the other end, the more people that come in legally and illegally can drive down wages especially when an illegal may work for half the prevailing wage.